An Apple executive has apparently slammed Samsung Electronics for stealing their technology. The official stated that the latter has practically stolen its iPhone for its smartphones.
The news arrives from Wall Street Journal‘s Joanna Stern who shared a new documentary (Via MacRumors). This documentary arrives ahead of the iPhone’s 15th anniversary and talks about the evolution of the Cupertino based giant’s iPhone. In the documentary, there is a video interview of Apple’s marketing chief Greg Joswiak, iPhone co creator Tony Fadell, and a family of iPhone users as well. One part of the interview has a brief mention about Android smartphones featuring larger displays year ahead of Apple.
Joswiak was also asked about how he felt about the impacts of Samsung and other Android smartphone makers in the market. To this, Joswiak stated that they were “annoying” and went on to accuse them for poorly copying Apple’s technology. He stated that “They were annoying. And they were annoying because, as you know, they ripped off our technology. They took the innovations that we had created and created a poor copy of it, and just put a bigger screen around it. So, yeah, we were none too pleased.”
Back in 2013, the South Korean brand had launched its flagship Galaxy S4 that featured a 5 inch display. Around the same time, the iPhone 5 was the direct rival and only had a 4 inch display in comparison. In the near future, iPhones with larger displays were released in the market. Although, Apple had also sued Samsung for patent infringement based on the latter’s phones copying iPhone’s design for the Galaxy series of smartphones.
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